Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training

Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training by alfiedotwtf on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:20PM (#24874312)

Perfect pitch here too...

Curious if this happens to others - you’ll hear a noise (e.g a glass hitting something, an object falling to the ground etc) that makes a single tone, and a song immediately starts playing in your head because it starts with that same tone?

My stand up desk at an old job was the starting pitch to Beyoncé’s Crazy in Love

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Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training by toolslive on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:27PM (#24874978)

Not perfect pitch, but I play a fretless instrument. I learned to map specific intervals to songs.

    minor 2nd : Jaws
    major 2nd : Frere Jacques
    ...

Now every time I hear an interval these things enter my brain.

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Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training by alfiedotwtf on Sunday November 01, 2020 @07:02AM (#24958890)

"My Bonnie lies under the ocean"

Yep... intervals helped during music exams :)

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Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training by coolguy132435 on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:23PM (#24875815)

For me, its more that hearing any song for a few chord changes conjures up other songs in either the same key or with the same chord progression, independent of key.

I remember noticing in highschool that hitting a few different corrugated plastic gutter pipes in my backyard would allow playing the bass line to Crazy Train...in principle, i immediately recognize the notes to different beeps and alarms in daily life and think about it unconsciously.

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Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training by StavrosK on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:03PM (#24874774)

Not perfect pitch, but yeah, this does happen to me. I'll hear a sound and start singing the rest of the song the sound reminds me of, and everyone will look at me oddly.

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